REDFEATHERS said:

Yes and No!!

Shanti1 said:

DISCUSS!

REDFEATHERS said:

Every damn night, sister!

REDFEATHERS said:

Just like with ppl every where - there are smart ones and stupid ones. It happens in every race and gender, nationality and region.
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july said:

Thats fucking ugly..

uPtoWnNY said:

Then again, we have extreme sports where anything goes except for eye gouging.

Spookymuffin said:

SHROT? Never too late to edit, take it from a pro.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Yep. The Brits, the Germans and the Dutch.

Stymie said:

and Stymie..

I believe this is an unrational generalization. There are just as many dumb euros as there are ignorant Americans, and there are just as many American Intellectuals as there are Euro sophisticats, I could go on and on about this but, I don't feel like writing a thesis statement cause this is a nasty stereotype that can be answered on so many different levels, on both a negative and positive level.

I don't think Europeans are more intelligent than Americans. They do seem to have perfected the fine art of "vacation time". They have an extraordinary amount of time-off from work. Go to any beach at the height of tourist season (i.e. Greece) and the bathing-suit top is off when actually more clothes should be a requirement when the top is on.
Sometimes their judgement is a little cloudy???

REDFEATHERS said:

Nah, not me. Most of what I've learned has come from friends overseas. Not from what they have said alone, but because they cause me to question and research things for myself. I don't particularly feel this country encourages that.

karmatornado said:

karmatornado said:

Damn you

You just said the same thing as I did but with more intelligence!!!

REDFEATHERS said:

One of two babies crowned lemurs (Propithecus verreauxi coronatus) born in early January 2007 is seen in this recent photo at the Parc Zoologique de Paris in nearby Vincennes. The birth of the two baby lemurs, part of the European Endangered Species Breeding Programmes, increases the population to ten lemurs in captivity at the Zoo. REUTERS/Francois-Gilles Grandin/PZP-MNHN/Handout (FRANCE).

xplnyrslf said:

WTF you talking about?

senik said:

july said:

Its still ugly..

karmatornado said:

Yeah, there r craze mutha fucas everewhere.

REDFEATHERS said:

Yeah, and it's still french.

REDFEATHERS said:

And I think you missed the entire point of my post. Those statistics you mentioned are underscored by a point I spoke on in my initial response. This entire thread is a non-sensical exercise because you cannot factor for intelligence and it is judged case by case. If intelligence isn't judged case by case then one would assume that all graduates of Ivy League schools are intelligent, but then George W. Bush would dispel that theory. Besides what you are talking about has nothing to do with intelligence, its more so dealing with a economic system that produces those results and also about the agenda of those in power. The results are produced not because people are stupid, but because they are led to believe certain things in order to maintain and perpetuate a system. The responsibility, as you call it, that we have as citizens is tied into a power structure and all of us, regardless of our country, are misled by that. If you cannot understand the difference in the set up and make up in different countries I suggest you do more research. There are smart people everywhere and there are ignorant(hence the term ignorant, not stupid) people everywhere. But trying to factor for whose the most intelligent is not only misguided, it's also pointless.

BTW, what criteria are you using to determine who is/isn't the most intelligent? Also, how can you compare Europeans to Americans (and I'm assuming you are talking about the United States), when Europe is a continent made up of a series of countries and the United States is one country? Europe isn't a monolithic entity, there are differences in countries, languages, histories and cultures. Therefore, how can a series of countries that varied be compared to a country, that is equally varied--but nonetheless still a country?
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If pressed, on the whole, yes I do, if we're talking the average intelligence across the US vs. that across Europe. Lacking much more than social interactions and the media as evidence it's ultimately a pretty poorly-informed guess and certainly not an opinion I hold particularly dear to me or one carrying much genuine worth. With so many factors to take into account I would simply say that we can all be held responsible for our own level of intelligence, not that of a whole country or continent (hence offense shouldn't be taken, unless you're a teacher ), and while it's certainly possible to put forward an opinion based on your own experiences, it must be done so with an understanding that those experiences are inevitably going to be pretty limited. It's clear there are intelligent and unintelligent folks in both the US and Europe, so all that's left is to either guess or sit on the fence and cite the the impossible demands of the question.

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On a whole I have found that European men are better listeners then ones from America. They also seem to be more polite (except for Karma of coarse...)
Just my observation...
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Okay here goes a somewhat compressed view of how I feel. World opinion, i.e. european popular opinion would lead you to believe that the United States is too unilateralist, too religious, too warlike, too laissez-faire, too fond of guns and the death penalty, and too addicted to simple solutions for complex problems. So goes the European indictment of American society, and much of the U.S. foreign-policy elite accepts it at something close to face value. This in some cases can be true, but as a whole is a common and all too dangerous misconception. One of the reasons that many euro's believe in the "Ugly American" statement is due to the fact that we are so opposite of european society as a whole, likewise this is why we as Americans tend to be so brash and volatile towards our fellow Euro's, because we don't want to take the time to get to know or understand your culture which is so totally different from ours. Ultimately, the reason our (American) society has worked, thrived and will continue to do so, is we take the best of the euro ideas and morph it into our own. There is a reason, why we are the most culturally diverse nation in the world, and it is not because we are a simpleton nation.
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Most people are stupid and Europe has about twice the population of the US.

Do the math.

Fauxie said:

In short, "yes--Americans are stupid."


Stop being a pussy!

Fauxie said:

I just don't think you can say on the whole one is more intelligent than the other. At least, I can't. And I'll be pissed at anyone who says they can. So there.

Imago said:

I didn't want to half offend you.

Note: The other half would've been too stupid to be offended.

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Plus, within America it is well known that Floridians are the bottom of the barrel!

I am sure that the fact that George "Dumbyah" Bush was elected and then RE-elected to the highest post in the nation has gone a long way towards tarnishing our image.